2015年9月28日月曜日

The last works I want to introduce are two kinds.
One is a temporary school made in museum, and the other is an old school turned to arts.

The first art is called "Last classroom".
The arts are placed at closed school named "Higashigawa elementary school".

Works are using lights and darkness, describing all people had gone at last.
The corridor in orange light.

When no people was there, I felt loneliness and fear that I maybe taken to some where other world.

Gymnasium filled with fan and small lights. The lights were like snowflakes.

Some people was watching the ceiling lie on the bench.

Music room with mirrors on the wall.

The classroom filled with glass boxes. They seemed like tombs and the room felt little cold.

As children are decreasing, schools are getting closed in Tokamachi.
I thinks the artists, Christian Boltanski and Jean Kalman, were describing the problem accurately.

Not only in Tokamachi, Japan is in same problem.
The people are getting older, we have to think to grow children, and elder may have to work little longer time than fathers, mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers.

I saw a sweet couple in gymnasium and felt little warm.
We have to do our best to keep Japan beautiful and peace.

The last work I want to introduce is named "A classroom made with blackboard".

Walls, desks, chairs and even globe were made with blackboard.

People who visit here can write anything they want using chalks.

See this flog.

Someone draw them as a picture.

The cat and dog drawn on the desk.
They were cute and I felt warm again.

These were all arts I wanted to show you.
There were more and more beautiful and fantastic arts, but I will introduce you someday.

The place I live is getting little cold and autumn is comming.
Yesterday was famous night that Japanese thinks that best full moon comes up in the year.
Also, today we can see super moon, the large moon than always.

I took pictures with Mastumoto castle yesterday, so I will introduce them in few days.

2015年9月16日水曜日

Unfortunately, the days I have visited triennale were mostly rainy.
As Tokamachi and Tsunan are country side, there were a lot of muddy places.
My car become dirty and had to wash twice in this few weeks.
(I have to wash it once more time...)

Using the closed school, artists created "Soil museum".
They brought great amount of soil and mud in side of school and created many works.

See this huge mud ball. I forgot exactly, but I think it was written it weights more than 20 tons!

When I saw this, I thought "If adults play with mud, I will become like this..."
There were lot's of works like this inside of the school.

This is the entrance.

Going through the circle wood, people can go inside.
A lots of mud balls were stuck to the fence.

Not only in the house, we Japanese takes off at school, too.
I felt weird, a little tickling feelings when I stepped inside.

Corridor and walls were covered with soils!!
I think a lot of Japanese people feels like me.

The cave inside of the class room.

The clothes dyed using dirt of Tokamachi.
They were curled to wheels.

They were quite colorful, almost green, brown, blue and orange.
I reminded the artist who creates clothes for Kimono who I met during craft fair in Matsumoto.

Along the stair way going upper floor, window was covered with a picture.

The artist brought soils from several places, and drawn this picture.
I saw dusts flying in the air. I felt like I'm in the desert.

In the music room, piano was left there.
It was also became a part of an art.

The school was closed in 2009.
The piano may be happy to see the people visiting.

In the other class room, there were a lot of samples of soils.

In the lights, shadows made by the rocks were beautiful. Just a sample become an art.
Sample where not only corrected in Japan. I also found a soil from Russia and China.

They were like pictures from nature.

At the corridor of upper floor, there were animals and birds created my mud and woods.

The first picture, a bird was set here, too.

As I wrote at the top, this space was named "Soil museum" in English.
In Japanese, it is called "Mogura no Yakata."

"Mogura" means "mole" and "Yakata" means "house".
In the wall, there were cute picture of mole.

One more artist was using mole as a theme.
He was growing vegetables and creating a TV programs wearing full body suits of mole.
The program were mostly composed with interviews to the artist who participate to this festival.

TV program was shown on internet, but also could hear in the radio, too.
As he done an hour program a day, people who visit here can talk with him.

Even he was beard man, the kids really loved him.

Today, I introduced arts using soils.
I will set some other theme and show the pictures soon.

I would like to introduce usual days in Japan using pictures.

I love travel both inside and outside of Japan.
But now, as I'm an office worker, its difficult to go far places. In this situation, I do internet and see beautiful pictures everyone takes. If the pictures were place I had visited, they may reminds me the memories how the place was fun, the site was beautiful, the people was nice, and somethig like that. If the pictures where never visited, I dreams of going there, and sometimes become those motive for going the place. I will upload pictures and blogs those who have near thougts as me.
I'm glad if my pictures and blogs uploaded makes you happy.